Category talk:Galicia (Eastern Europe)

The category should be renamed Category:Galicia for several reasons. Central Europe is a vaguely defined region, and for the majority of our readers Lviv and its hinterland is Eastern Europe. I don't think Wikipedia should advertise contentious geographical constructs. --Ghirla^-трёп- 00:45, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Eastern Europe is a term which raises even more controversies: geographically (the midpoint of Europe is in Lithuania/Belarus and half of Galicia lies in the western part of the continent) culturally (a mixture of Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Protestantism and Judaism), histrically (a part of Poland, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Germany, USSR, Ukraine), and even linguistically (Ukrainian, Polish, German, Russian...). The region is on the crossroads, therefore naming it central European is the closest to the truth as we can get - it is too far from the eastern border of Europe to be named "eastern European". We cannot move Galicia, as we suggest, to the category without geographical designation because there is already a region with the same name in Spain. Unlike central European Galicia, which is rather a historical region, Galicia in Spain is very much alive, even being a part of Spain. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Martina Moreau (talk • contribs) 20:50, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Finally, there is a question of coherence. All languages on Wikipedia signing Galicia to a region, name it central European.--Martina Moreau (talk) 20:57, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Move to Central Europe

The region is geographically located in central Europe. It cannot be classified as eastern European, because it is very far from the eastern border of Europe.--Martina Moreau (talk) 18:01, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Please cite reliable sources for your assertion. Chris Troutman (talk) 21:07, 16 November 2013 (UTC)